Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Jul 1999 13:50:05 +0200 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: fsck is dead (was: Some very thought-provoking ...) |
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On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 09:10:11PM -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> > I talked to someone a few weeks ago who described a system he just sold -- > > 5 minutes of down time costs this customer about $500,000. That means that > > the 33 minute fsck costs about 3.3 million dollars. Do *you* want to tell > > this person that fsck is tolerable? > > > > Um, can you say, UPS, and "maintainence"? If proper amounts of both are > given, the chances of an fsck are almost NONE, in my experience and that > of *MY* clients. I don't know about anyone else...
You obviously don't have customers for which their systems are really mission critical - I've seen people which after those 33mins just for something avoidable like fsck would switch hardware/OS vendor. Whatever that would cost. Take that verbose, whatever it costs.
Ralf
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